Month: January 2010

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship — Meeting & Supper 1/29

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thumbnailCAZT765LHave you considered earning a PhD and becoming a professor? Do you love research, and are you committed to helping to rectify the historical underrepresentation of African-Americans, Latino/as, and American Indians in U.S. colleges and universities and the disparities that result from that underrepresentation? If so, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) may be for you. MMUF is a program that matches Fellows with faculty mentors and provides programming that demystifies academic careers and prepares Fellows for applying successfully to graduate school. Students are selected in the spring of their sophomore  year, participate in an intensive six-week summer session, and remain in the program during their junior and senior years. Much more information on MMUF is available at http://www.mmuf.org.

An information session will be held on Friday, January 29 at 6:00 PM in 403 Fisk. A light supper will be served. If you are interested but cannot attend, please get in touch with the Associate Coordinator, Renée Johnson-Thornton at rjohnson01@wesleyan.edu or 860 685-3084.

 

Study Abroad Info Sessions!

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Upcoming Information Sessions:

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3:  Study Abroad & Science Majors  4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.  Fisk 302

thumbnailCA3VAKGF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4:  Financial Aid & Study Abroad  4:15 – 5:15 p.m.   Fisk 302

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8:  School for International Training (SIT)  Noon – 1:00 p.m.   & 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.   Fisk 210

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9:  Bordeaux Immersion Program  4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.   Fisk 305

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11:  Students of Color & Study Abroad  4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.  Fisk 302 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15:  Internships in Francophone Europe  4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.  Romance Languages & Literatures   (300 High Street)

 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17:  IES – Nanzan University  4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.  Fisk 302

 

 

First-Year Focus: Applying to a Program House

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FYF-Program House

DATE:  FEBRUARY 3, 2010

LOCATION:  USDAN 108

TIME:  6:30-7:30 PM

*SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED*

Thinking about applying to a Program House?  Questions about choosing your housing next year?  Want to know the process?

Area Coordinators, Dawn Brown & Alex Cabal, along with Asst. Director of ResLife,  Melissa Powers, will do a short presentation and then be available to answer YOUR questions!

STOP ON BY!  

Sponsored by The Deans’ Office & The Office of Residential Life

Invitation to Work with a Writing Mentor

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WRITING MENTOR PROGRAM:  Applications are due Tuesday, February 2 at 5 p.m. and available at:  http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/mentorapp.html

TO THE CLASS of 2013:

We invite you to work with a WRITING MENTOR this semester!  Have you ever wanted a personal tutor and editor, someone who would meet with you privately to help with your writing? 

thumbnailCAM7YPH6In the Writing Mentor program you will meet every week throughout the semester with a trained student writing mentor. Your mentor will help you with papers for all your courses as well as with general questions about your writing, whether you need advice about generating ideas, structuring your essay, grammar, or time management. We welcome all applicants.

We look forward to hearing from you. You can find the electronic application at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/mentorapp.html

This is a relatively new program with limited funding so we cannot guarantee that all applicants will be paired with a mentor.  Please note that if you participate in the Writing Mentor program, you are making a commitment to meet with your mentor regularly.

Best Wishes,  Charlie Weiss and Oriana Korol, Ford Fellows in the Writing Program, 103 and 104 Downey House, (860) 685-2440 writingworks@wesleyan.edu

and  Anne Greene, Director of Writing Programs

H1N1 Flu Vaccine

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thumbnailCA1W2X0ZDavison Health Center will be offering free H1N1 flu clinics for all interested students, faculty and staff over the next few weeks as vaccine is obtained from the State Health Department.  Clinics will be held Thursday, January 28, from 10am-2pm; Monday, February 1, from 1pm-4pm; and Monday, February 8, from 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary.  Please follow signs inside the Health Center for “H1N1 flu clinic waiting room.”

BECOME A RESIDENT OR COMMUNITY ADVISOR

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Want to know more? Attend one of the ResLife info sessions this week:

Tonight (Jan 25) @ 7pm – Nicolson Lounge

  • Wednesday (Jan 27) @ Noon – USDAN 108
  • Thursday (Jan 28) @ 8pm – Butterfield A Lounge

More info…

Applications are due February 4th by 4:00pm

  • Go to www.wesleyan.edu/reslife to apply
  • You don’t have to attend an info session to apply, but we suggest you do to get more information about the positions and the selection process.

 

Let’s Get Ready!: Volunteer College Prep

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thumbnailCAVKZXOYWANT TO HELP SOMEONE GET TO COLLEGE?  VOLUNTEER ONE EVENING A WEEK WITH LET’S GET READY!

Where:    Macdonough Elementary School (three blocks from Wesleyan); transportation provided 

 When:    March 1 – April 28, 2010:  Mon. or Wed. nights from 6–8:30 p.m.

LGR is a FREE college-access program serving the under-resourced students of Middletown. The program consists of intensive SAT preparation and real college preparation, which includes searching for colleges, writing application essays, and financial planning. 

 As a tutor, you’d be given a class of 5 high school juniors with whom you’d meet once a week throughout the semester and guide along the path to college, providing either math or verbal SAT prep. Training, curriculum, and full support are provided by the program – you just need to bring an interest in tutoring and your enthusiasm!

 To learn more, come to an information session:

February 3 • 4:15 p.m. • Usdan 108    There will be free food!

Visit http://www.letsgetready.org/ for more information or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5WLHNGD to apply!

Or contact Martine and Julia at wesleyanlgr@gmail.com

Applications due February 13th.  Compensation available for those with federal work-study. Partnered with Teach for America!

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Let’s Get Ready at Wesleyan University  Spring ’10

Martine Seiden, Co-Director, (808) 216-9416 and Julia Alschuler, Co-Director, (917) 678-6038

Tuesday–4:30 p.m. Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King

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Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

with

the Roadside Girls and the Ebony Singers

and

Keynote Speaker Dr. Jason Irizarry

irizarry

  Living the Dream: Youth Activism and a New Vision for Urban Public Education

Tuesday, January 26
4:30 p.m., Memorial Chapel

Dr. Jason G. Irizarry is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut.  Prior to his arrival at UConn, he was the Director of Project SPIRIT (Springfield Partnership to Improve the Recruitment of Inspiring Minority Teachers), a college-community collaboration aimed at increasing the number of teachers of color in urban schools.  He received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, culturally responsive curriculum development, action research, and urban education.

A former middle school teacher in New York City, his research focuses on urban teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention with an emphasis on increasing the number of teachers of color, culturally responsive pedagogy, and youth participatory action research. A central focus of his work involves promoting the academic achievement of Latino and African American youth in urban schools by addressing issues associated with teacher education.  Manuscripts documenting the findings of his research have been published or accepted for publication in a variety of journals in the field including Education and Urban Society, Multicultural Perspectives, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and the Centro Journal of Puerto Rican Studies and others appearing as chapters in various books including the Handbook of Latinos and Education: Research, Theory & Practice (Murillo, 2010) and Culture, Curriculum, and Identity in Education: Progressive Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice. (Milner, 2009).

Class–10:30 a.m.   Dr. Irizarry will conduct a seminar for students on his work.  Open to the first 20 respondents.  To register, email stuact@wesleyan.edu

Luncheon– Noon     Join us for a discussion with Dr. Irizarry over lunch (reservation required). Open to the first 30 respondents (staff, faculty or students).  To RSVP, email stuact@wesleyan.edu

New Course Announcement: The Journalist as Citizen

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thumbnailCAF6OQLUOffered by the distinguished journalist Jane Eisner, Wesleyan’s first Koeppel Fellow in Journalism 

Class Meets Thursdays 7:00-9:50 in PAC 421

Students may register online, the course is open to students from all four class years.

 

Course Description:

In this weekly writing seminar, we will explore how journalists exercisetheir roles as citizens, and, in turn, how journalism affects the functioningof our democracy. Using historic and contemporary examples, we willexamine how, at its best, the media exposes inequity, investigates wrongdoing, gives voice to ordinary people, and encourages  active citizenship.

 Instructor Bio:

Jane Eisner, a pioneer in journalism, became editor of the Forward in June 2008, becoming the first woman to hold the position at the influential Jewish national weekly newspaper. Eisner held numerous executive editorial and news positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 25 years, including stints as editorial page editor, syndicated columnist, City Hall bureau chief and foreign correspondent. In 2006, she joined the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where she served as vice president for national programs and initiatives, with responsibility for all adult programming, the Liberty Medal, and the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution. Since 2002, Eisner has been a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, as well as an adjunct professor in the school’s political science department. In 2006, she was one of three women chosen to be the first fellows of the new Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College, where she led conferences and workshops and was the college’s 2007 commencement speaker. In 2009, Eisner was selected to be one of 20 fellows in the Punch Sulzberger Executive News Media Leadership Program at the Columbia School of Journalism. Her book, “Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in our Democracy,” was published by Beacon Press in 2004. In addition to her Inquirer column “American Rhythms,” which was syndicated to 100 newspapers, Eisner has contributed articles to a number of Jewish publications, including The Reconstructionist, Ma’ayan and the Forward. She has also written for the Washington Post, Newsday, Brookings Review and Columbia Journalism Review, and served as a regular panelist on the WPVI television talk show “Inside Story.”

An active member of her local community, Eisner is a board member of the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, a past president of the Pennsylvania Women’s Forum, a former trustee and secretary of The Philadelphia Award, and a mentor with Philadelphia Futures. Nationally, she is a member of the Columbia School of Journalism Alumni Board, the National Conference on Citizenship’s advisory committee, and the Encore Leadership Network. Eisner received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and graduated from Wesleyan University cum laude in 1977, where she was the first female editor of the college newspaper and was a member of the board of trustees. She recently was the first woman to win Wesleyan’s McConaughy Award for contributions to journalism and public life.

Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration

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In Celebration of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Living the Dream: Youth Activism and a New Vision for Urban Public Educationirizarry

Keynote address by:

Dr. Jason G. Irizarry
Tuesday, January 26th
4:30 p.m., Memorial Chapel

Dr. Jason G. Irizarry is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut.  Prior to his arrival at UConn, he was the Director of Project SPIRIT (Springfield Partnership to Improve the Recruitment of Inspiring Minority Teachers), a college-community collaboration aimed at increasing the number of teachers of color in urban schools.  He received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, culturally responsive curriculum development, action research, and urban education.

A former middle school teacher in New York City, his research focuses on urban teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention with an emphasis on increasing the number of teachers of color, culturally responsive pedagogy, and youth participatory action research. A central focus of his work involves promoting the academic achievement of Latino and African American youth in urban schools by addressing issues associated with teacher education.  Manuscripts documenting the findings of his research have been published or accepted for publication in a variety of journals in the field including Education and Urban Society, Multicultural Perspectives, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and the Centro Journal of Puerto Rican Studies and others appearing as chapters in various books including the Handbook of Latinos and Education: Research, Theory & Practice (Murillo, 2010) and Culture, Curriculum, and Identity in Education: Progressive Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice. (Milner, 2009).

Class
Dr. Irizarry will conduct a seminar for students on his work.
10:30am, Open to the first 20 respondents
To register, email stuact@wesleyan.edu

Luncheon
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Irizarry over lunch (reservation required)
Noon, Open to the first 30 respondents (staff, faculty or students).
To RSVP, email stuact@wesleyan.edu